The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-28

\ A quiet, scholarly man, whose good
character IL thoroughly established,
who has ! fiue general education and
has added thereto years of patient
study Of medicine, may come to a town
about the size Of lola, paint his name
and title on his ONCE door, perhaps in
sert . modest card in the paper, In
every way abide by "the code"-and
at the end Of six years he may possibly
have won . practice that will give him
. bare subsistence. A clustering, self
trumpeting fellow, whqee moral char
acter nobody knows anything about,
who gives positive proof Of having but
the most meagre general education, Of
whose special training nothing is
known, may come into . town about
the size of lola, blazon his name in
every window and on every dead wall,
plaster the town with faring posters
pr0claiming what . great man he IL,
| give q few free lectures about himself,
and at the end Of six days he il worn
out with the crush Of "patients" who
have tumbled over each other In their
haste to pass under his hands. And
yet they say it doesn't pay to adver-
tise 4
For the past six months we have f.
newed no old contracts nor made any
new ones, for ''foreign advertising''
and it will be observed that very few
such now remain in our paper. These
advertisements have been dropped at
. considerable sacrifice, because we
know how much more creditab1e to
town q paper IL that contains only
home advertisements. The change
gives as considerable more space and
by making room for local or editorial
reading on every page, makes one
page as valuable as another to adver-
tisers,-a fact which we trust our bust
ness men will appreciate.
We deeply appreciate the flattering
and generous notice given of our spec
ial edition by our neighbors the COu-
rant and Democrat, and hereby tender
them our grateful acknowledgement.
We wish that our experience with the
said edition might have been such as
to justify US in advising the boys to 60
and do likewise; but candor compels
US to admit that it has not been. The
edition cost US q good many dollars
more, in actual cash, than we will get
out of it, to say nothing of the days and
nights Of labor spent on it. As mon
ey making scheme "boom edition" is
a fiat failure
As surmised by the REGISTER, Mr..
Freeman concluded on further deliber-
alton to accept for his grove the same
price at which he offered it last July.
With this understanding the Board of
Trade committee went vigorously to
work, and the result is that meeting
is called tomorrow night to form an
organization and consummate the pur-
chase. And thus another of the REG
IsTER's tow lines c.mes in dragging
what 1t went after, thanks to the en-
ergy of our Board of Trade and the
public spirit of our business men.
The utmost that even their own par
ty papers will say for the democratic
candidates is that they are the equals
of their republican opponents. Grant
ing this, for the sake Of the argument,
it still appears that the skies Of the
democratic nominees are not exactly
crowded with bows of promise. If
as even our enemies admit-we can be
just as weli served BY the election of
our own candidates, would we not be
"fools and blind" to defeat them?
The Board of Trade pur-
chased 500 copies of our special edition
and they have all been sent to parties
in other States. Besides these nearly
200 copies have been purchased by pr.
vate parties. We still have about 500
copies on hand, however, which we
would like to dispose of during the
coming week, not particularly because
the sale Of them will help US tout of
the hole" but because we believe their
distribution will benefit our town and
county.
We don't propose to pay the city Of
lola 500 for the right to sell you peo-
pie ladies cloaks. blankets, mems and
boys clothing at auction, which we
intended to do. But we propose to sell
at counter sale just as hard and little
harder and give you people of lola and
the community in general the benefit
of the little 500 by selling our proper
ty for that much less. Watch for our
bills Of bankrupt sale. Respectfully,
Gerrit Smith Manager of the Diamond
G, Co.
The very worst that the democratic
organs can urge against any of the re-
publican candidates, is that two Of
them are "third-termers." That is,
because they have thoroughly learned
the duties of their office, they must
make way for men who know nothing
whatever about those duties, That is,
because they have 80 conducted them.
selves as to have twice won the ap-
prevail of their fellow-citizens, they
must now be told they are no longer
wanted. Brilliant logic, truly.
We sincerely regret to learn that the
accident suffered last week by r. v.
Blair, of Cottage Grove township,
mention of which was made in our last
issue, resulted fatally, death occurring
ON Sunday morning. Mr.. Blair was
one of our very best citizens, man Of
pleasant manner and sterling integrt
ty. who did his whole duty by his fam.
lily, his neighbor and his country. His
death is loss to the entire commune
ty.
Citizens of Allen county, we ask you TO stop
and consider the matter one moment. and then
see if You can conscientiously vote for Duny.
He is . thiId-termer and everybody knows
last republican state convention laid all third
termers on the shelf.-Denocrot.
Well, Well! Has the Democrat got
m far IN the mad tn reDublicAnism that